Ban Comic Sans
August 2, 2006 | Filed Under Media, Rant | 4 Comments
In Print.
July 25, 2006 | Filed Under Life, Media | 3 Comments
from today’s Sheffield Star.
Click what a picture
By Martin Dawes
THEY call themselves the Flickrites - around 200 snap happy photographers on the prowl around Sheffield looking for decent shots.
And my, how they have succeeded. They’ve recorded the city in all its glory for an online photography archive.
“We want people around the world to see what Sheffield life is like and how beautiful it is,” says John Wardell, Flickrite and amateur photographer who joined the local group on Flickr.com a year ago.
He specialises in abstract and macro (close-up) photography, such as this one of a paddle taken in the Rother Valley Country Park.
Others may be into landscapes, sport, black and white photography , using a particular camera, or just like to wander the city making a journalistic record.
The Sheffield group is part of a worldwide online site - one of the biggest is in San Francisco - but John reckons that while they might not be able to compete in quantity they do on quality.
“The quality of some of the photos in the Sheffield group is fantastic,” he says.
With the advent of digital photography, taking and sending a photo is as easy as pushing a button and clicking a mouse.
With over 3,300 photos in the archive it’s already proving an invaluable resource and no doubt one day it will be of historical importance.
Gareth Davies, one of the administrators who set up the group in March last year, says: “We think it is a unique record as it is now and how it has changed and is changing.
“Different members of the group have different interests and so bring massive variety.”
Photographers can join up as themselves or adopt ‘handles’ or web personas. Harry Halibut, for example, has a penchant for pictures of city doorways while Drunken Monkey seems to shoot everything from pop concerts to his own birthday party.
Gareth (Trois Têtes) adds that meetings are held every two months and competitions set on different subjects. There is also a Pick of the Week every Friday.
It has not taken long for academia to get involved. Dr Julia Davies, who is also a Sheffield Flicker (DrJoolz), has written a paper saying digital photography and sites like Flickr have “changed the way people look at the world
“They now carry cameras everywhere they go . . . and even attend international meetings just to see their Flickr friends face to face.
“With basic membership free of charge, Flickr is easy to join yet seems difficult to leave.”
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sheffield
END.
…pity they got my name wrong in the print edition, at least it’s right here
http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=4766&ArticleID=1649802
No tags for this post.Best. Kite. Eva…
July 25, 2006 | Filed Under Media | 1 Comment
I really, really, gotta get me one of these…
…and no - not the Woman, I’ve had some of those, they’re hard work. 
Flickr Banner
July 24, 2006 | Filed Under Blogging, Media | Leave a Comment
At the foot of this site…
from http://www.flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/
No tags for this post.ipod wish ©
July 15, 2006 | Filed Under Geek, Media | 2 Comments
I really, really wish, that the ipod had a function where, when in shuffle mode, and it plays a track you like - one button press would play more tracks by that artist, or the album it was from - and then one more press goes back to shuffle…
…just thinkin’ outloud…
No tags for this post.Syd Barret. RIP.
July 11, 2006 | Filed Under Media | Leave a Comment
January 6, 1946 – July 7, 2006
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter,
you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
Bye Syd.
No tags for this post.ghost2 b
July 7, 2006 | Filed Under Media | 3 Comments
Test 2
No tags for this post.ghost2
July 7, 2006 | Filed Under Media | Leave a Comment
ghost2
Originally uploaded by Jim Barter.
Testing Flickr’s ‘Blog This’ function…
No tags for this post.so, so, smart
June 22, 2006 | Filed Under Geek, Media, Rant | 2 Comments
bruce lawson talks wisely on the piss water that is wcag 2.0
interestingly - search for wcag 2.o on google - follow the first link.
screengrab in case (edit) the results change due to popularity of @media!
…prize to the first person who spots why they’ve missed this!
No tags for this post.DATABASEAUDIO
June 21, 2006 | Filed Under Media | 1 Comment
After a three year lay-off the best online resource for freeware audio applications, vst plugins and tools has relaunched.
DATABASEAUDIO v3 is owned and maintained by an old buddy and ex-workmate of mine, Mark Hadley, accomplished designer, coder and sometime audiogeek.
If you know your cubase inside out, or just enjoy making things (or listening to things) go beep - stop by the site, you’ll spend hours there!
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